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J. M. MAYER.

BUGKBOARD WAGON.

Patented Dec. "18, 1883.

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BUCKBOARD-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,445, dated December18, 1883,

Application filed October 13, 1883. (No model.)

clear, and exact description of the same, ref-- erence being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a side view of the wagon-body with thewheels and the ends ofthe axles cut off, and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan or underneath view ofthe same.

My invention relates to what are known as buckboard Wagons; and itconsists, principally, in the combination of the buckboard or springingbottom with the axles and peculiar intermediate springs and braces,whereby the vehicle is made easy-riding, strong, free from rattlingnoise, and lateral or forward and backward movement, as will be fullydescribed hereinafter.

In the drawings, A represents the buckboard or springing bottom, made ofash,cedar, or other suitable material, and having mounted near itsmiddle the seat B, in the rear of which is a guard-rail, O, and in frontof which-is the dash-board D, and between which seat and dash-board is adetachable rail, 0, corresponding in finish to C, but made of malleableiron as a single casting.

E is the rear axle, which is connected to the bottom of the buckboard bya U-shaped spring, F, whose two branches extend up toward the middle ofthe buckboard longitudinally to the same, and are securely boltedthereto, and whose bowed or rounded portion is bent downwardly, and isfirmly bolted or clipped to the middle of the rear axle. This spring-mayhave any number of leaves or sections, according to the load the wagonis built to carry.

To the outer ends of the rear axle there are fastened by a clip uponeach side the stiff straight brace-rods G, which run up to near themiddle of the buckboard at about the same inclination as the branches ofthe spring, and at their front ends are jointed to plates at a, whichare securely bolted to the buckboard.

At the front end of the wagon the bolster,

] resting above the fifth-wheel or turn-plate of the front axle, isconnected to the bottom of the buckboard by a U-shapedspring, F,corresponding to the rear one, while a single brace, G, extends from thevertical bolt of the front axle to the buckboard, and is attached to thelatter through a jointed plate, a. 7

Now, in defining my invention more clearly I would state that I am awarethat the bottom of a wagon-body has been connected to the axle bysprings, and has also been connected to the wagon-body by spring-braces,as shown in the Patent No. 122,820.

My invention is distinguished by the following features-that is to say,the peculiar form and relation of the U-shaped springs in connectionwith the jointed brace-rods. The springs render the connection of thebuckboard to the axle elastic, while the braces stiffen the body againstforward or backward pitching, and while these results are attained thestiff brace-rods and the U shapedsprihgs have a peculiar coactiverelation, in that in the springing movement of the body to the axle theradial movement of the braces describes at the axle an are thatcorresponds to the arc of themovement of the springs at this point,whichsecures the following advantages: first, that it prevents rattlingnoise at the joint of the braces; and, secondly, that it preventstwisting strains on the axle due to the up-anddown motion of thebuckboard.

Instead of a single U-shaped spring in front and rear, there may be twostraight springs in front and rear, arranged lengthwise the body andconnected independently to the axles, instead of being continued abovethe axle in the form of a U-shaped bend, the essential feature beingthat the ends of the spring or springs which connect with the buckboardshall be on the same side of the axle as the braces and at some distancefrom the axle.

To strengthen the front and rear ends of the buckboard, awooden strip, Sand S, is glued and bolted transversely to the under side of each of theends of the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. Thecombination,with a buckboard and the axle, of one or more bracesfastened to the axle and jointed to the buckboard, and one or moresprings connected to the axle and fast ened to the backboard at somedistance from the axles E E, the U-shaped springs F F, and the axle andupon the same side of the axle as the braces G G, substantially as andfor the the braces, as set forth. purpose described. I 2. Theco1nbination,with the buckboard A 4. The combination, with the bottom ofa 5 and the axle, of the U-shaped spring having wagon-body, the seat,and the dasher, of a castits ends fastened to the backboard and itsmetal detachable railing, 0, arranged between round part to the axle,and one or more braces the seat and dasher, as and for the purposedeconnccted to the axle and jointed t0 the buckscribed.

board upon the same side of the axle with the J OH M. MAYER. 1o U-shapedspring, substantially as and for the XVitnesses:

purpose described. EDMUND S. V0013,

3. The combination, with the buckboard, of Louis 1. AHLHEIM.

